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Policy After Politics How Should the Next Administration Approach Public Land Management in the Western States? TRANSCRIPT Policy after Politics How should the next administration approach public land management in the western states? Presented on June 1, 2000 By The Andrus Center for Public Policy Cecil D. Andrus, Chairman Student Union Boise State University Boise, Idaho TRANSCRIPT Policy After Politics How should the next administration approach public land management in the western states? Presented on June 1, 2000 By The Andrus Center for Public Policy Cecil D. Andrus, Chairman Student Union Boise State University Boise, Idaho ©2000 The Andrus Center for Public Policy FROM THE CHAIRMAN During the coming months, the major presidential contenders will spend a lot of time in campaign planes, flying over the American west. Unfortunately, it will be a rarity when one of the major party candidates actually campaigns in the vast region from Denver to San Francisco, from Missoula to Albuquerque. Even more rarely will the candidates address the huge issues that dominate the politics, the economics, and the lives of westerners. Nonetheless, in early November a new president-elect will start the critical process of putting together a government that will, indeed must, confront our issues. On June 1, 2000, the Andrus Center brought together a distinguished cast of current and former western governors of both parties with the goal of giving the new president and his future cabinet our game plan for how to shape the “policy after politics” in the west. Whether you are a conservationist worried about the future of salmon, a livestock operator concerned about a new approach to grazing on the public lands, a wood- products worker outraged by a roadless policy, or a citizen bedeviled by urban sprawl and oil prices, you will be interested in this discussion. We asked the governors to check the election-year rhetoric at the door but to come fully armed with their best practical, candid, and non-partisan advice. They did just that, and I have pledged to deliver personally to the president-elect the white paper that came out of the comments they made. It is our hope that those observations and suggestions will help shape a western agenda in the next Administration. Cecil D. Andrus Chairman Andrus Center for Public Policy CONFERENCE PROGRAM Policy After Politics How should the next administration approach public land management in the western states? June 1, 2000 7:00 a.m. Registration 1:30–2:30 a.m. Panel Discussion 2nd floor, BSU Student Union. Moderated by: Marc Johnson, Former Chief of Staff 8:15 a.m. Continental breakfast for Governor Andrus Lobby of Jordan Ballroom, Participants: BSU Student Union. John Kitzhaber, Governor of Oregon 8:40 a.m. Opening gavel for Policy After Politics Marc Racicot, Governor of Montana Jordan Ballroom, BSU Student Union. Phil Batt, Former Governor of Idaho Remarks and introductions by: First Republican governor in 24 years, former Cecil D. Andrus, Chairman, legislator, lieutenant governor, and leader on nuclear waste issues. Andrus Center for Public Policy Norm Bangerter, 8:50 a.m. Welcome and comments by: Former Governor of Utah Dirk Kempthorne, Governor of Idaho Former Chairman of Western Governors Association, two-term Republican governor, former speaker of 9:00–10:30 a.m. Keynote address: the Utah House of Representatives, leader on western “How should the next administration resource issues. approach public land management in Mike O’Callaghan, the western states?” Former Governor of Nevada John Kitzhaber, Governor of Oregon Idaho native, University of Idaho graduate, two-time Democratic governor, currently executive editor of A senior western, two-term Democratic governor and the Las Vegas Sun. recent advocate of breaching the four lower Snake River dams to aid salmon recovery. Jay Shelledy, Editor, Salt Lake Tribune Marc Racicot, Governor of Montana Former editor and publisher of Moscow Pullman Daily News, former managing editor of Lewiston Two-term governor and former state attorney Morning Tribune, award-winning columnist, reporter, general, who plays an influential role as close friend and keen observer of western politics. and advisor to Governor George W. Bush. 2:30–3:30 p.m. Forum for questions to and from 10:30 a.m. Refreshment Break speakers, responders, and audience. 11:00 a.m. Question and Answer Forum Moderated by: Moderated by: John C. Freemuth, Ph.D., Cecil D. Andrus, Chairman, Senior Fellow, Andrus Center for Public Policy Andrus Center for Public Policy Noon Luncheon, Jordan Ballroom, 3:30 p.m. Conference adjourned BSU Student Union. Speaker: Jay Shelledy, Editor, Salt Lake Tribune TABLE OF CONTENTS Policy After Politics How should the next administration approach public land management in the western states? Presented on June 1, 2000 By The Andrus Center for Public Policy At the Student Union, Boise State University Boise, Idaho OPENING REMARKS: Chairman Cecil D. Andrus ............................................. Page 5 WELCOME: Governor Dirk Kempthorne .......................................... Page 6 Governor of Idaho 1ST KEYNOTE ADDRESS: The Honorable John Kitzhaber ..................................... Page 8 Governor of Oregon 2ND KEYNOTE ADDRESS: The Honorable Marc Racicot ........................................ Page 13 Governor of Montana QUESTIONS & ANSWERS: Moderator: Cecil D. Andrus........................................... Page 20 LUNCHEON ADDRESS: Jay Shelledy ................................................................... Page 29 Editor, Salt Lake Tribune DISCUSSION PANEL: The Honorable Phil Batt................................................ Page 35 Former Governor of Idaho The Honorable Norm Bangerter.................................... Page 36 Former Governor of Utah The Honorable Mike O’Callaghan.................................. Page 37 Former Governor of Nevada Jay Shelledy ................................................................... Page 38 Editor, Salt Lake Tribune OPEN FORUM: Keynote Speakers, Panelists, Audience.. ...................... Page 38 PARTICIPANTS: Biographies.................................................................... Page 47 Policy After Politics How should the next administration approach public land management in the western states? Presented by The Andrus Center for Public Policy at Boise State University Thursday, June 1, 2000 8:30 a.m. Morning Session Keynote Speakers: John A. Kitzhaber, M.D. Governor of Oregon Marc Racicot Governor of Oregon GOVERNOR CECIL D. ANDRUS: Good morning and are all free to speak their minds, and we hope we can give welcome to our Year 2000 meeting where we will discuss direction to the next president and his cabinet in order to policies after politics. My name is Cecil Andrus, Chairman of have a voice from the western United States. the Andrus Center for Public Policy at Boise State University. There is a difference of opinion on the management of We have many distinguished guests here with us today. I’d public lands, but the first thing we have to remember is that like to welcome all of my gubernatorial friends from present the public, not the federal government, owns the land. The and past and tell you how much I appreciate your willingness federal government manages those lands for the public, and to be here with us today. we have a strong difference of opinion throughout the United A couple of announcements. I’d like to introduce Dr. John States and the western United States as to how certain areas Freemuth. John is a tenured professor at Boise State of the land should be managed. There is a strong difference University. He is also a senior fellow at the Andrus Center for of opinion within this room. Public Policy, is active in the political science field and in What we hope and expect and what we’re going to demand natural resources, and is a good person for you to know. is a voice in the process that creates the methodology by Our luncheon speaker is Jay Shelledy. He’ll be introduced which the public lands will be managed. We hope it will not later and will be a stimulating speaker. Your credentials get be a top-down process but a bottom-up decision process. you into the luncheon and anything else that we have going None of us will win all the battles we want to win, but our on. goal is to have a voice in the solutions. Now briefly, the purpose of this symposium and the reason At the end of today’s session, we will then put together a we entitled it “Policy after Politics.” Politics dominates white paper. You’ll all receive that. After that, I will see that everything in this election year for the presidency of the it is delivered to the next president of the United States, and United States. We have no idea which one of the major it will be distributed, we hope, to those potential candidates candidates will be elected, but here’s what we’re trying to for cabinet posts and others who will have a voice in the do. Some of us feel that the west and certainly some of the management of the public lands. So that’s what we’re here resource areas are ignored. The candidates for the presidency for today. of the United States have a tendency to fly over us and look I do not believe that between now and November you’re down on their way to Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco going to see much of a change in attitude or situation because where the people and the votes are. They don’t pay much politics dominates. The group today is not non-partisan, but attention to the Rocky Mountain West. We’ve seen evidence it is bi-partisan. We hope we can come up with some of the of that in both political parties. answers. This symposium is comprised of current governors—both I see, as I sit here and look over the audience, members of of whom are serving their last terms as governors—and former the Legislature of this state, of Oregon and of Nevada, and governors, who tell me they have no desire to run again, many others are here as well. I welcome you and thank you particularly in the political environment we have today.
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